Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-27
DEATH IN THE WATER.

DEATH IN THE WATER.
IL the Element We Drink Dsci-
mating the People? How q
Univer sal Menance TO Health
may be Disarmed.
A few years ago the people in Ger,
tain section in one of the leading cities
of the state were prostrated with q ma
lipnant disease, and upon investigation
| it was found that only those who useo
water from famous old we'll were the
victims.
Professor S. A. baltimore, analyst of
the New York State Board of Health,
upon analyzing water from this well,
found it more deadly than the city
sewage!
The filing up of the old well stopped
the ravages of the disease.
Not long since the writer noticed,
while some men were making an excsva.
ton for large building, stratum If
dark colored earth running from near the
surface to hard pan. There it took an
other course toward well near 1t hand
The water from this well had for years
been tainted with the DRAWINGS from a
receiving vault, the percolations of which
had discolored the earth!
Terrible!
A similar condition of.sthings exists in
every village and city where well water
is used, and though the filtering which
the fluids receive in passing through the
earth may give them clear appearance,
vet the poison and disease remains,
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It is still worse with the farmer, for
the drainage from the barn yard and the
slops from the kitchen eventually find
their way into the family well
| The same condition Of things exists in
our large cities, whose water supplies are
rivers fed by little streams that carry of
the filth and drainage from houses. This
"water" is eventually drunk by rich and
poor alike with great evil.
Some cautious people resort to the
filter for purifying this water, but even
the filter does not remove this pois u, for
water Of the most deadly character may
pass through this filterand become clear
yet the poison disguised is there.
They who use filters know that they
must be renewed ct regular periods, fol
even though they do not take out all the
impurity, they soon become foul.
Now, in like manner the human kid.
neys act as a filter for the blood, and if
they are filled up with impurities and
be come foul, like the filter, all the blood
in the system coursing through them be.
comes bad, for it is now q conceded fact
that the kidneys are the chief means
whereby the blood is purified. These
organs are filled with thousands of hair.
like tubes, which drain sthe impurities
from the blood, as the sew er.pipes drain
impurities from our houses.
If sewer pipe breaks under the
house, the sewage escapes into the earth
and fills the house with poisonous gas;
so. if any of the thousand and one little
hair like sewer tubes If the kidneys
breaks down, the entire body is affected
by thi, awful poison.
1t is . scientific fact that the kidneys
have few nerves OF sensation; and, con.
-equently, disease may exist in these
organs tor q long time aud not be sus.
pected by the Individual. 1t is impos.
sible to filter or take the death out of the
blood when the least arrangement exists
IN these organs. and if the blood is not
filtered then the uric acid, or kidney
poison. removable only by Warmers
safe cure, accumulates in the system and
attacks any organ. producing nine out of
ten ailments, just as sewer gas and bad
drainage produce SO many fatal disorders.
Kidney disease may be known to exist
If there is any marked departure from
ordinary health without apparent known
cause, and it should be understood by
all that the greatest peril exists and is
intensified, ii there is the last neglect
to treat it promptly with that great
specific, Warmers Safe Cure, q remedy
that has received the highest recogni.
tion by scientific men who have thor
oughly investigated the character of
kidney arrangements.
They may not tell US that the cause
OF so many diseases in this organ is the
impure water or any other one thing.
but this poisonou water with its impur.
lties coursing constantly through these
delicate organs undoubtedly does pro-
duce much of the decay aud disease
which eventually terminate in the fatal
Brights disease, for this disease. alike
among the drinking men, prohibitionists,
the tobacco slave, the laborer, the mer.
chant and the tramp, works terrible
devastation every year.
tits well known that the liver, which
is so easily thrown tout of gear" as
they say, very readily disturbs the
action of the kidneys. That organ,
when deranged, Immediately announces
the fact by sallow skin. constipated
bo wells. coated tongue and headaches,
but the kidney, when diseased, strug-
giles on for long time, and the fact of
its disease can only be discovered by the
aid Of the microscope or by the physician
who is skillful enough to trace the most
indirect effects in the system to the de-
raugement of these organs, as the prime
cause.
The public is learning much on this
subject, and when it comes to under.
stand that the kidneys are the real
health regulators, as they are the real
blood purifiers of the systsm, they will
escape an infinite amount of unnecessary
saffering, and add length of days and